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QUEBEC Marlene Jennings says she was wrong to back Premier François Legault when he suggested the English Montreal School Board was not qualified to decide about school openings and closings.
And she has apologized to the board.
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“When you are wrong, you are wrong!,” Jennings, head of the Quebec Community Groups Network, said in a tweet Thursday.
“And boy was I wrong to support Legault on school closures (or not).
“EMSB was right and I was wrong. I apologize unreservedly to EMSB. Full stop.”
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With a third wave of the pandemic requiring a ratcheting up of Quebec’s public health restrictions anew, Premier François Legault still found time Tuesday for a low blow against one of his favourite punching bags.
After announcing that high school students in red zones like greater Montreal will go back to every-other-day in-person attendance, Legault denied that his rapid reversal indicated it was a bad idea to send secondary students back to full-time classes in the first place. In fact, he essentially accused the English Montreal School Board, and its anglophone counterparts who resisted the now moot decision, of thinking they know better than Quebec’s top public health experts.
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With a third wave of the pandemic requiring a ratcheting up of Quebec’s public health restrictions anew, Premier François Legault still found time Tuesday for a low blow against one of his favourite punching bags.
After announcing that high school students in red zones like greater Montreal will go back to every-other-day in-person attendance, Legault denied that his rapid reversal indicated it was a bad idea to send secondary students back to full-time classes in the first place. In fact, he essentially accused the English Montreal School Board, and its anglophone counterparts who resisted the now moot decision, of thinking they know better than Quebec’s top public health experts.
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QUEBEC A war of words has erupted after Marlene Jennings, head of the Quebec Community Groups Network, sided with Premier François Legault over whether the English Montreal School Board is qualified to make decisions about re-opening schools.
“I love it!!!,” Jennings tweeted Wednesday after Legault questioned the EMSB’s decision to resist his government’s order to send older high school students back to class full time an order the government soon rescinded.
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